Siberian Education

By Nicolai Lilin

Subjects: Organized crime, Fiction, coming of age, Ukraine, fiction, Fiction, Europe, social life and customs, Fiction, biographical, Tattooing

Description: By the age of six, Nicolai Lilin had been given his first 'pike knife' by an uncle, and by the age of twelve, he had been convicted of attempted murder . . . Nicolai Lilin gained his 'education' as a member of the Siberian Urkas - a small and tight-knit community of 'honest criminals' in a forgotten corner of Eastern Europe . . . Siberian Education is his tale of an extreme childhood - exotic, violent and completely unique.